Back End Engineer at Flutterwave

About the Back End Engineer Role

We are looking for a driven, passionate, and committed individual to join the team as we grow and expand across Africa and beyond. As a Backend Engineer (NodeJS), your primary responsibility will be to implement, maintain, and where applicable, support product features (and or enhancements)

What Your Day to Day Activities Will Be 

• Implementation, testing, delivery, and maintenance of product features (new and existing)
• Creating technical reports on feature implementations 
• Research on existing/new product features and areas of improvement 
• Commitment to creating and maintaining secure coding practices (and standards)
• Providing support for product features (when needed) 
• Perform any other duties that may be assigned

Required competency and skillset to be a Waver

• Proven work experience in Software Engineering
• Good knowledge of Javascript for the backend (NodeJS) [Typescript is a plus] 
• Proficient understanding of Git
• Good, working, knowledge of the SQL query language (MySQL flavor). [Knowledge and understanding of ORMs is a plus]
• Good, working, knowledge of NoSQL databases (MongoDB especially). [Knowledge and understanding of ODMs is a plus]
• Good research skills
• Good time commitment/management skills
• Attention to details
• Quick learner